had the privilege of launching a Canadian division of a US based company some years ago. During the process we were tasked with initiating an inter-company bulletin board so employees of this service based business could communicate with and support each other. When I told the US leadership that we needed to launch a separate board for the Canadian operations they asked me why and I told them that if we made it cross border, it would immediately devolve into a bunch of negative 'country bashing', mostly from the US side (I am American by the way). They disagreed and mandated that we just allow Canadians to access the US board.

I'm sure by now you can guess what happened....it took about 2 hours for the US participants to start dropping in video clips of "blame Canada' from South Park, asking how we liked living in igloos, eating polar bears, etc. and it just escalated from there.

I got the pleasure of showing the comments on the site to the US EVP the next day and the satisfaction of a solid 'told you so'.

We then quickly launched a Canadian-only portal as I originally suggested.

I'm not saying that only the Americans were being naughty and derisive but it was clearly started by them.

had the privilege of launching a Canadian division of a US based company some years ago. During the process we were tasked with initiating an inter-company bulletin board so employees of this service based business could communicate with and support each other. When I told the US leadership that we needed to launch a separate board for the Canadian operations they asked me why and I told them that if we made it cross border, it would immediately devolve into a bunch of negative 'country bashing', mostly from the US side (I am American by the way). They disagreed and mandated that we just allow Canadians to access the US board.

I'm sure by now you can guess what happened....it took about 2 hours for the US participants to start dropping in video clips of "blame Canada' from South Park, asking how we liked living in igloos, eating polar bears, etc. and it just escalated from there.

I got the pleasure of showing the comments on the site to the US EVP the next day and the satisfaction of a solid 'told you so'.

We then quickly launched a Canadian-only portal as I originally suggested.

I'm not saying that only the Americans were being naughty and derisive but it was clearly started by them.

Crushed-soul cubicle workers gotta entertain themselves somehow.

Time to start cycling through old sigs.

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Well that is that and this is this,
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get,
You get away from me.
You get away from me.